Salamanca Group’s Director of Sustainable Communities, Esther Croft attended a launch dinner for a new regional business alliance called ‘Growing Together’, hosted by KPMG.
Esther represented the Group’s principal investment, the Gravity Smart Campus, the 616-acre enterprise zone that seeks to create up to 7,500 jobs by securing a large-scale advanced manufacturing occupier to Somerset.
The event took place alongside the Conservative Party Conference. Esther joined leading UK businesses and government representatives.
The Growing Together alliance will strengthen cooperation and drive growth across different parts of the country. The alliance will work together to leverage each region’s particular strengths. It will be chaired by the Northern Powerhouse Partnership and also includes BusinessLDN, Business South, Business West, Cambridge Ahead and the North West Business Leadership Team. A key area of its focus will be driving place-based economic strategy to boost regional productivity and good growth, by strengthening innovation, spatial planning and foreign direct investment.
Salamanca Group Director of Sustainable Communities, Esther Croft, commented on the event “I was delighted to be involved so early in my time with Salamanca Group. Events like these are crucial for building the necessary relationships to translate investment into outcomes on the ground which is vital for economic restructuring into future-facing sectors and create homes and positive environmental and social outcomes for places and communities. I look forward to seeing the material progress that ‘Growing Together’ can achieve nationally to influence policy alignment and ensure effective collaboration between private enterprises and public bodies to make a positive difference on the ground in the regions”.
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About Salamnaca Group
Salamanca Group is a privately-held Merchant Banking business, home to experts in global investment and advisory, with a focus on real estate. Salamanca Group’s real estate team has operated across the globe, purchasing land, developing sites and buying businesses related to the sector. The Group’s focus is on large projects in the UK having divested many of its overseas assets. The Group works with clients to enable their business, protect their assets and grow their capital.
About the Growing Together alliance
Currently the membership of the Growing Together Alliance – BusinessLDN, Business South, Business West, Cambridge Ahead, Northern Powerhouse Partnership and the North West Business Leadership Team – are all from the English regions. This may expand in the future to include other similar organisations from England or the other nations of the UK.